Like Bobby on The Brady Bunch shoving his umbrella thru the roof of the convertible, I always felt that if Lucille Ball had done this stunt, it would have been classic comedy.
Beaver is going to spend the night with his friend, Whitey, but BEFORE THEY GET TO THE WHITNEY HOUSEHOLD, Beaver and Whitey observe a billboard with a woman holding a bowl of soup and smoke coming out of the soup.
They discuss if there is really soup in the bowl or not. Beaver says there isn't, Whitey says there is.
So Beaver climbs up to look in the bowl.
As Beaver makes his way up the woman's arm, he calls down to Whitey, "boy, Whitey, you sure are a dumb kid." "Yea," Whitey mumbles to himself, "I'm a dumb kid," looking up at Beaver climbing up the sign.
When the show aired in the afternoon, I would come across this episode and wondered for the longest time how Beaver got in that bowl or whatever he was in.
I would have to catch the episode decades later to find out.
Now what made it interesting is, after Beaver had fallen into the bowl (which had no liquid in it, only dispensing smoke) and had to be rescued by the fire department, Whitey ran home to tell his parents.
Gradually other kids, from Haskell to Rutherford, and adults made their way to the billboard.
When Ward walks up, Whitey's parents were there.
What was interesting was Mr. Whitney telling Ward that it was Beaver, and that Beaver never made it to the Whitney house, thereby removing Mr. Whitney of any responsibility of Beaver's predicament, I suppose.
"Ya can't blame me, Ward. I never saw yore kid!" Still, I've always liked this one. Good dialogue with Wally and his friends as they wait for Beaver to be removed from the soup bowl.
Stands rather original as well, as I don't recall any other shows having an episode like this.
Beaver is going to spend the night with his friend, Whitey, but BEFORE THEY GET TO THE WHITNEY HOUSEHOLD, Beaver and Whitey observe a billboard with a woman holding a bowl of soup and smoke coming out of the soup.
They discuss if there is really soup in the bowl or not. Beaver says there isn't, Whitey says there is.
So Beaver climbs up to look in the bowl.
As Beaver makes his way up the woman's arm, he calls down to Whitey, "boy, Whitey, you sure are a dumb kid." "Yea," Whitey mumbles to himself, "I'm a dumb kid," looking up at Beaver climbing up the sign.
When the show aired in the afternoon, I would come across this episode and wondered for the longest time how Beaver got in that bowl or whatever he was in.
I would have to catch the episode decades later to find out.
Now what made it interesting is, after Beaver had fallen into the bowl (which had no liquid in it, only dispensing smoke) and had to be rescued by the fire department, Whitey ran home to tell his parents.
Gradually other kids, from Haskell to Rutherford, and adults made their way to the billboard.
When Ward walks up, Whitey's parents were there.
What was interesting was Mr. Whitney telling Ward that it was Beaver, and that Beaver never made it to the Whitney house, thereby removing Mr. Whitney of any responsibility of Beaver's predicament, I suppose.
"Ya can't blame me, Ward. I never saw yore kid!" Still, I've always liked this one. Good dialogue with Wally and his friends as they wait for Beaver to be removed from the soup bowl.
Stands rather original as well, as I don't recall any other shows having an episode like this.